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U.S. Air War Exercises against DPRK Escalate

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The war planes of the U.S. imperialist aggression troops are staging frantic air war exercises against the DPRK these days, straining the situation on the Korean Peninsula, according to a military source.
    On June 7, overseas-based formations of F/A-18 were busy with long-distance navigation exercises of returning to their base non-stop after dropping bombs under the simulated conditions of an actual war.
    On June 5 and 8, warmongers of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces kicked up war atmosphere by transferring pursuit assault planes, refueling tanker and commanding planes from their bases in Japan to their air force bases in south Korea.
    In the meantime, a total of more than 300 war planes including overseas-based flying corps and fighter bombers and assault planes belonging to the 7th Air Force of the U.S. imperialist aggression troops in south Korea were busy with air battle drills and exercises of striking targets on the ground and providing close air support in the sky above Kyonggi and South Kangwon and North and South Chungchong provinces while being refueled by KC-135 in mid-air under the unified command of E-3.